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BLOOMSBURY Fall 2021 September – December BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING AUGUST 2021 Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket Stories Hilma Wolitzer The uncannily relevant, clear-eyed collected stories of an acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery—with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer—now 90 years old and at the top of her game—has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height” (The FICTION / SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) Washington Post). These collected short stories—most of them originally Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/31/2021 published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post in the 9781635577624 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages present—are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of motherhood. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often MARKETING hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer’s stories zero in on Early consumer review campaign on the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely NetGalley observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Promotion to librarians and library marketing Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, Indie bookseller outreach providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and is often Outreach to blogs/bookstagrammers overlooked now—reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole covering literature and memoir Social media campaign on Bloomsbury new generation of readers. accounts Digital assets: excerpt available on PRAISE Bloomsbury website National print and online campaign for “[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which reviews and features love can both change and endure.” —The New York Times Pitch for reviews and seasonal reading roundups and most anticipated lists “To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little National broadcast campaign intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race.” —Gail Godwin “Wolitzer’s vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review “Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.” —NPR “Funny, wise, and touching.” —The Washington Post on An Available Man Hilma Wolitzer is a critically hailed author and a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award. Her first published short story appeared in print when she was thirty-six. Eight years later, she published her first novel. Since then, her novels have drawn praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City. 2 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021 Unfollow Me Essays on Complicity Jill Louise Busby Trick Mirror meets White Fragility—an intimate and insolent essay collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from cultural commentator Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack. Jill Louise Busby spent almost ten years in the nonprofit sector, specializing in Diversity & Inclusion. She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centers on the topics of race, power, and privilege and delivered over two hundred workshops and trainings to nonprofit organizations across the Bay Area. One summer, fed up with the faux liberal innocence of the Pacific Northwest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Busby made a short video about race, white institutions, and the danger of DISCRIMINATION intentional gradualism and posted it on Instagram. The video went viral, Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 9781635577112 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. receiving millions of views across platforms. Over the next few years, as her Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages pithy persona Jillisblack became an “it voice” for all things race-based, Jill 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W began to notice parallels between the performances of “diversity” for the white corporate world and “wokeness” for her followers. Both, she realized, were scripted. MARKETING Unfollow Me is a memoir-in-essays about these scripts; about tokenism, National trade and consumer advertising micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces—real and virtual, black and white—where campaign at publication complicity is the price of admittance. Busby’s social commentary is wryly funny Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the Extensive social media promotion, cover subtle rules and hierarchies of “progressive” communities. Unfollow Me is a reveal and online influencer outreach deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility (and other words for ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing where fear masquerades as progress. campaign Extensive independent bookseller Jill Louise Busby (or Jillisblack) had spent ten years in the nonprofit sector specializing in diversity marketing and inclusion when she posted on Instagram an incisive attack on liberal gradualism and the Book club marketing Library marketing campaign “progressive” nonprofit machine. The video went viral, making her the indulgently honest “it-voice” National media campaign including print, for all things race. She now has a loyal following of over 80,000. She continues to use her platform broadcast, and online to expose contradictions, challenge performative authenticity, and campaign for accountability. National review coverage Focus on op-ed pieces, profiles 4-city autho... 3 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021 Piranesi Susanna Clarke The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret FICTION / LITERARY Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 9781635577808 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has Trade Paperback | 272 pages always known. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Other Available Formats: Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an Hardcover ISBN: 9781635575637 infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds. MARKETING PRAISE Major national trade and consumer advertising campaign at publication “[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving Extensive social media promotion and gleaming gifts in its wake . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.” online influencer outreach Giveaways via Goodreads and social —The New York Times Book Review media “A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.” —The New Bloomsbury consumer email marketing Yorker campaign Book club marketing “Unforgettable—surely one of the most original works of fiction this season. It Paperback review coverage drops you into a mind-bending fantasy world . It’s a hypnotic tale that you can Extensive independent bookseller devour in a day (and probably will; it’s that hard to put down).” —AARP.org marketing “A high-quality page turner.” —The Wall Street Journal Susanna Clarke is the author of the The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and the New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award–winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She lives in England. 4 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021 The Next Great Migration The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move Sonia Shah A prizewinning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting—predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western SCIENCE world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries 9781635577860 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were Trade Paperback | 400 pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a Other Available Formats: different story. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration catapulted us to the Hardcover ISBN: 9781635571974 heights of the Himalayas and the isles of the Pacific. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa.